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Sundial

by Catriona Ward

A family’s buried past returns to the Mojave

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner of Best Hardcover Novel at the ITW Thriller Awards

    Best Hardcover Novel

  • Editorial selection

    A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick

    Top 10 Pick

  • Critical praise

    Stephen King calls Sundial “authentically terrifying”

    Attributed praise: “DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying.”

AlbakiReads Editorial

A family’s buried past returns to the Mojave

Rob has spent years avoiding Sundial, the family ranch deep in the Mojave Desert, and the memories attached to it. Her concern about her daughter Callie’s bone collecting and imaginary friends brings those memories back into the present. As Rob returns to the ranch and recounts disturbing stories from her childhood, Callie grows afraid of her mother and of what the family history might mean for them both. The novel brings psychological horror into a mother-daughter relationship, with the isolated ranch serving as the setting for questions about inherited darkness, fear, and the secrets families keep from one another.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in psychological horror rooted in family relationships.
  • Readers drawn to stories about unsettling childhood memories and family secrets.
  • Readers looking for horror set at an isolated desert ranch.

Themes

Family secretsMother-daughter relationshipsChildhood memoriesInherited darknessFear

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Book overview

"DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying." --Stephen King

WINNER of Best Hardcover Novel at theITW Thriller Awards - Finalist for the Bram Stoker and Locus Awards - Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel -LibraryReads Top 10 Pick - A GoodReads Choice Award Finalist for Best Horror!

Sharp as a snakebite, Sundial is a gripping novel about the secrets we bury from the ones we love most, from Catriona Ward, the author of The Last House on Needless Street.

Rob has spent her life running from Sundial, the family's ranch deep in the Mojave Desert, and her childhood memories.

But she's worried about her daughter, Callie, who collects animal bones and whispers to imaginary friends. It reminds her of a darkness that runs in her family, and Rob knows it's time to return.

Callie is terrified of her mother. Rob digs holes in the backyard late at night, and tells disturbing stories about growing up on the ranch. Soon Callie begins to fear that only one of them will leave Sundial alive...

"This book will haunt you."--Alex Michaelides, New York Times bestselling author

"An unthinkable feat." --The New York Times Book Review

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